SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A spiraling Puerto Rico debt crisis reached a new milestone as the island commonwealth missed nearly $370 million on a bond payment Monday and officials warned of worse to come if Congress doesn't help it dig out from a mountain of $70 billion in obligations.
The default was the largest in a series of missed payments by the struggling U.S. territory since last year and Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla warned it was unlikely to be the last.
BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday he "appreciated" the changes made to the House version of the controversial "bathroom bill" unveiled Friday, while Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, an Amherst Democrat, said he was still reviewing the additional language, which gives the attorney general a role in dealing with assertions of gender identity for "an improper purpose."
Speaker Robert DeLeo said he supports the revised bill but would wait to take action in the House of Representatives until after the Senate debates its version of the measure, which doesn't have the revisions, and a vote on May 12. The joint Committee on the Judiciary voted to recommend both versions to the full legislature on Friday.
